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Eric Foner
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埃里克·方纳 出版社: W. W. Norton & Company 副标题: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution 出版年: 2019-10-15 页数: 288 定价: GBP 18.99 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780393652574
The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as American law. The Reconstruction amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed due process and the equal protection of the law, and equipped black men with the right to vote. The federal governmen...
The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as American law. The Reconstruction amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed due process and the equal protection of the law, and equipped black men with the right to vote. The federal government, not the states, was put in charge of enforcement. By grafting the principle of equality onto the Constitution, the amendments marked the second founding of the United States. Eric Foner's rich, insightful history conveys the dramatic origins of these revolutionary amendments in citizen meetings and political negotiations. He explores the momentous court decisions that then narrowed and even nullified the rights guaranteed in these amendments. Today, issues of birthright citizenship, voting rights, due process, and equal protection are still in dispute, the ideal of equality yet to be achieved.
Eric Foner is the preeminent historian of his generation, highly respected by historians of every stripe-whether they specialize in political history or social history. His books have won the top awards in the profession, and he has been president of both major history organizations: the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. He has worked ...
Eric Foner is the preeminent historian of his generation, highly respected by historians of every stripe-whether they specialize in political history or social history. His books have won the top awards in the profession, and he has been president of both major history organizations: the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. He has worked on every detail of Give Me Liberty!, which displays all of his trademark strengths as a scholar, teacher, and writer. A specialist on the Civil War/Reconstruction period, he regularly teaches the nineteenth-century survey at Columbia University, where he is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History. In 2011, Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize.
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“It falls far short of my wishes, but . . . I believe it is all that can be obtained in the present state of public opinion. . . . I will take all I can get in the cause of humanity and leave it to be perfected by better men in better times.” Shortly before final passage, Stevens again expressed disappointment, in an eloquent statement of his political creed:
In my youth, in my manhood, in my old age, I had fondly dreamed that when any fortunate chance should have broken up for awhile the foundation ofour institutions, and released us from obligations the most tyrannical that ever man imposed in the name of freedom, that the intelligent, pure and just men of this republic . . . would have so remodeled all our institutions as to have freed them from every vestige of human oppression, of ine... (查看原文)
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3 有用 清少纳言 2023-04-15 10:43:49 美国
Eric Foner最简短的一本书。本卷简单明了地介绍了内战后的现实和重建宪法修正案的背景。快读完时却突然觉得已经被这个字字泣血的故事的沉重感压的喘不过气来。放下书后为被压迫了四百年、直到今天都还在为了尊严而抗争的人大哭一场。再想到Foner写了一辈子的重建历史，对他只能有更加深刻的尊重。
1 有用 Stan 2022-04-04 22:40:56
两百多页读下来还是觉得只了解到了皮毛。种族歧视是一个中国不太存在的现象，而推翻种族歧视的过程却是一个所有被压迫的民族应该佩服的事情。